Chapter 322: [Scorched Huntress] (1/2)

The swarm in the main nest was not as much as the swarm they encountered outside. After twenty minutes of work, Tang Shaoyang wiped out the entire Scorched Guardian by electrocuting them.

Under Tang Shaoyang's order, Malki kept sending the limbless Scorched Guardian to Li Na. The battle in the core nest was over with the Scorched Guardian's carcasses strewn all over the place.

There were no more enemies, Malki was standing right below Tang Shaoyang. He was waiting for the next order dutifully. Tang Shaoyang scanned the massive and his [Dragon Eyes] found something radiating fierce mana.

He did not rush over, looking at the carcasses, wondering what he should do with these carcasses. It was stage-5 carcasses, with a class, and level 145 on average. The number might be less, but it was a decent sacrifice to get a decent spirit.

”Let's save this for later,” he muttered in a low voice as he came down next to Malki. After knowing the cooldown, he was not going to let Malki return yet. They still had the last big boss ahead of them.

”Can you keep going? We have the last Boss to take down,” he asked Li Na. She looked fine, but he still asked her to make sure of her condition. Since it was a big boss, they should defeat it together. Li Na might get one or two levels from ”assisting” him killing the last boss.

”I am fine!” Li Na nodded and replied loudly, telling him she was okay.

”What about Moon? Is he still recovering?” He gestured to Li Na to follow him, ”Yes, he is still recovering,' the girl replied as she chased Tang Shaoyang.

”I see, can't be helped. Let's share the level with just two of us,” Tang Shaoyang nodded and led the girl through the hot steam. The hot steam limited her vision, but it was not an issue as they soon found the host of the nest.

It was a massive ant with a massive abdomen with a bright crimson carapace. The ant reached ten meters in height, everything else was normal. The big one did not have the blade-like arm or even blade-like mandibles, it was just a big normal mandible.

The thing was, the giant ant was resting inside a pool of lava. It had half of its abdomen inside the pool of lava. The pool was ten meters wide, away from the ground.

”Screech! Screech! Screech!” At the sight of the giant ant, Malki was starting to screech again. The screech was painful in the ears.

”Stop it, Malki!” Tang Shaoyang yelled at the Fire Ant Emperor, ”What's wrong with you?”

—Enemy! Enemy! Enemy! Enemy!

Malki pointed his blade-like arm toward the giant.

—Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!

Malki could not speak directly but conveyed his thought through his mind to Tang Shaoyang. Hatred and anger could be felt from his voice.

'As expected, each spirit has their backstories, most of them are unpleasant with Karan as an exception,' three out of his first four spirits became a spirit with a deep vengeance.

Zaneos was betrayed by the King he respected the most. Zowen was also betrayed by her closest one. And lastly, Rumru had an unfinished vengeance against the Gods. Now Malki, he appeared with pure thought and dedicated himself toward him. But he revealed his hatred at the sight of the giant ant.

[Basic Detection]

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Name: Searen

Race: Ancient Arachnid

Affiliation: Ant Kingdom – Scorched Colony

Evolution: Stage 7

Class: Scorched Queen

Level: 201

Skill:???

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As he expected, the last boss was the Ant Queen. Now he tried to link between Malki and Searen, 'Are they related? Or the hatred is because of Searen's status, The Queen?'

—Most likely the latter since Malki is Fire Ant Emperor. Maybe there's a hidden story behind Ant's hierarchy. That may be the cause. Or it can be whatever, we can't get the answer unless Malki tells us.

Zaneos voiced his conjecture. Both clearly were different species, so they should not have conflict before, or maybe they had the conflict that caused Malki to die.

Malkia stopped screeching, his eyes never left Searen. The latter did the same too, the Scorched Queen stares at Malki. The Ant Queen seemed to share the same hatred, he could feel that for some reason.

”Nah, let's not waste our time here,” he glanced toward Li Na, ”Start your attack, we will finish the Ant Queen!”